This document discusses algorithmic art and music created with artificial intelligence. It introduces the concept of an "algorist" who uses algorithms and their own creative process to generate art. Several notable composers who have used algorithmic techniques are mentioned. The document outlines different musical elements and patterns that can be modeled, as well as artificial intelligence concepts like neural networks that can be applied to generate new music. It provides a quote about the thought-provoking nature of algorithmically generated music that captures styles and emotions. Examples are given of music created with AI to emulate the style of composers like Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin.
2. 2Algoristif (creation && object of art && algorithm && one's own algorithm) { include * an algorist*} elseif (!creation || !object of art || !algorithm || !one's own algorithm){ exclude * not an algorist *}
16. “In twenty years of working in artificial intelligence, I have run across nothing more thought-provoking than David Cope's Experiments in Musical Intelligence. What is the essence of musical style, indeed of music itself? Can great new music emerge from the extraction and recombination of patterns in earlier music? Are the deepest of human emotions triggerable by computer patterns of notes?” – Douglas Hofstadter (Gödel, Escher, Bach)16
